Trust you were able to spend some time with your family during the Holiday Season. Would like to share with you a brief report on the Ecuador Mission Trip. My friend Steve and I spent a little over two weeks there on Kingdom Business. We saw the hand of God move in so many ways while we were there. There seems to be a great hunger in the people of Ecuador for the Living God. Notice I used the words "Living" God. The people there are tired and fed up with dead religion. I guess you could say the same thing for the people in America, and everywhere else in the world for that matter. There truly is a growing hunger for the manifest presence of God everywhere and the following are just a few of the things that we experienced.
We had to make a trip one day to a furniture store, and while we were there I noticed that this woman who worked there was showing signs of experiencing much pain and fatigue. One of the people that was with us asked her if there was something wrong with her, and she said that she had a growth under her left arm which was causing her excruciating pain. She could not lift her arm as she had no strength. I asked her if I could pray for her, and she immediately said yes. As Steve, Suzy and myself gathered around her and prayed the power of the LORD came upon her in a very visible manner. After we finished praying, the intense pain left her and she was able to raise her arm perfectly without any discomfort whatsoever. We also prayed for an emotional problem that was causing her to be depressed. Her whole countenance changed, and by the time we left the store she was laughing.
We also went to the City of Asuncion where we met with a man named Fernando. As we talked to him, he opened up and told me that he had lost his two sons in less than two years and at the same time his wife had left him. I could tell that the man was emotionally crushed and needed the Lord in his life. I asked him if I could pray for him. He told me to please pray for him. As gathered in a circle and I prayed the presence of God filled that place with His Shalom. You could feel the tangible presence of the Father there. After the prayer was finished, Fernando had tears rolling down his cheek. He was deeply touched as the LORD had done a work of healing in his heart.
Throughout both of these events, there was a family of four that was witnessing the whole thing. One night we were invited to dinner and they started to bombard us with questions about God, and life in general. You could see the hunger for God in these people. A few days later, I invited them to attend a meeting at the hotel where Steve and I we were staying and that night I led them in a prayer to receive Jesus Christ as their LORD and Savior. I was very impressed by the hunger for God in the people of Ecuador. We intend to continue by the grace of God to do ministry work in Ecuador in the days to come. We would like to thank those of you who have helped us with your finances and prayer for us to be able to do missions in places like Ecuador, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico and wherever the LORD leads us. May the Father bless you and grant
you much peace in the coming year 2013.
Shalom,
Augusto Perez
The Appearance Ministries
